Bail attachment for stone jars



N0. 6l|,033. Patented Sept. 20,1898. J. T. GILL.

BAIL ATTACHMENT FOR STONE JARS.

(Application filed Oct. 30, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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JAMES T. GILL, OF HERSCHEL, KENTUCKY.

BAIL ATTACHMENT FOR STONE JARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,033, dated September 20, 1898.

Application filed October 30, 1897- Serial No. 656,942- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. GILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Herschel, in the county of Butler and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Bail Attachment for Stone Jars, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in bail attachments for stone jars and analogous receptacles.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of bails for jars and analogous receptacles and to provide a sim ple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to mount a pair of bails on a jar at opposite sides thereof and to preserve the bails in proper position and prevent them from slipping around the jar on the means for attaching them to the same. I

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a jar provided With a bail attachment constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the bail attachment detached.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a stone jar or analogous receptacle provided at its upper edge with the usual annular exteriorly-arranged lip or flange 2, against which abuts a band 3, preferably consisting of a single piece of Wire having its ends twisted together. The band secures a pair of rectangular bails 7 to opposite sides of the jar, and each bail is provided at its terminals with eyes or hooks 9 for engaging the band, as clearly shown in the drawings. The jar or receptacle is provided with vertical elongated recesses 10, spaced apart, as shown, and formed in opposite sides of the jar, being extended partially into the lip or flange 2. There will be two pairs of these recesses in each jar, and the recesses of each pair will preferably be about four inches apart. The eyes or hooks at the ends of the bails or grips are loosely seated in their respective recesses, and they are prevented by such recesses from sliding around the jar on the band and are maintained by the recesses diametrically opposite each other. In applying the handles or grips to the jar the eyes or hooks 9 are arranged in the recesses 10, and the wire band is threaded through the eyes or hooks and fitted around the jar below the flange or shoulder 2, and its ends are secured together by twisting. This band can be easily tightened should it become stretched in any manner. 7

The invention has the following advantages: The bail attachment is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, and it is adapted to be readily applied to stone jars and analogous receptacles, and the recesses willeffectually prevent the handles or grips from slipping around the band and getting outof place. The grips or bails will always remain diametrically opposite each other, and if the wire band should become stretched it may be readily tightened.

What I claim is- The combination of a jar having an annular lip or flange at its upper end and provided at opposite sides with recesses arranged in pairs and extending partially into said lip or flange, a pair of bail handles or grips having hooks or eyes at their ends seated in said recesses, and a wire band threaded through the hooks or eyes of the handles or grips and fitting around the jar below the flange or lip, substantially as described.

'In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- JAMES T. GILL. Witnesses:

F. M. FLOWRY, J. M. FISHER. 

